The IChing was the earliest divination tool known to mankind. You essentially take 3 coins and flip them to generate a reading. You then consult a text that gives you the meaning. When we don’t understand things, we sometimes seek out the divine for answers. In our table top role playing games, the dice serve as this divine resource for the answers to how we move the story forward.

We are going to take this conversation further and the goal is to open the discussion around this new genre of storytelling from historical and design perspectives. Games and the storytelling space have merged. Chance operations and collaboration create a new, brilliant space to create fiction. Nathan and Todd open the discussion here and lay the groundwork for a deeper dive as we record future episodes.

PrinceCon is the oldest Dungeons and Dragons Con on the east coast and has a very unique way of handling one theme and storyline with 20 DM's and more than 100 players. It all funnels together.

Held at Princeton University since 1976, this unique gaming experience is something you should know about. Check out this show.

Todd Lambrix, Garret Brennan, Richard Frohman and Nathan Gilvey are regular content creators at Wither and Bloom Studios and avid players f TTRPGs.

PrinceCon Resources:
https://www.princecon.org/con/48/

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